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Richard M. Murray Thomas E. and Doris Everhart Professor of Control & Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering California Institute of Technology Papers Research Group Teaching Contact

Other Activities: Group Schedule Feedback Systems Molecular Programming Project

Prospective postdocs: I typically make decisions about postdocs in the April-May timeframe, when I know what my grants look like for fall. Please take a look at my current research interests to see what projects we are currently working on.

Recent Publications

Synergistic dual positive feedback loops established by molecular sequestration generate robust bimodal response (PNAS 2012) Receding horizon control for temporal logic specifications (IEEE TAC, 2012) Timing molecular motion and production with a synthetic transcriptional clock (PNAS, 2011) Controlling biological networks by time-delayed signals (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 2010) Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers (textbook, 2008)

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Research

My group's research is in the application of feedback and control to networked systems, with applications in biology and autonomy. Current projects include work on biomolecular feedback systems, novel architectures for control systems, and networked control systems (see my research overview for more details).

Active projects: Template:Active projects [Archive]

Group

Andrea Censi (CDS) Nadine Dabby (CNS) Emzo de los Santos* (BE) Marcella Gomez (ME) Shaobin Guo (BMB) Shuo Han (EE) Clarmyra Hayes# (BE) Victoria Hsiao (BE) Vanessa Jonsson (CDS) Chris Kempes+ (MIT) Jongmin Kim (BE)

Scott Livingston (CDS) Joe Meyerowitz* (BMB) Adam Nilsson† (Sweden) Necmiye Özay (CDS) Ivan Papusha (CDS) Dan Siegal-Gaskins (BE) Vipul Singhal (CNS) Anandh Swaminathan (CDS) Fei Sun+ (China) Zach Sun (MD/PhD)

Anu Thubagere (BE) Stephanie Tsuei (CDS) Zoltan Tuza+ (Hungary) Ophelia Venturelli (BMB) Eric Wolff (CDS) Yong Wu (ChE) Mumu Xu (ME) Enoch Yeung (CDS)

* co-advised students

+ visiting researchers

° rotation students

† undergraduates

# research tech

Former graduate students:

• Andrea Censi - Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems, June 2012 (thesis)
• Pete Trautman - Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems, June 2012 (thesis)
• Dionysios Barmpoutis - Ph.D. in Computation and Neural Systems, December 2011 (thesis)
• Elisa Franco - Ph.D in Control and Dynamical Systems, June 2011 (thesis)

Robert Behnken (thesis) Julia Badger (Braman) (thesis) Francesco Bullo (thesis) Robert Bodenheimer* John Carson (thesis) Tim Chung* Lars Cremean (thesis) Raff D'Andrea* Samantha (Feakins) Daly# Domitilla Del Vecchio (thesis) Mary Dunlop (thesis) William Dunbar (thesis) Michael Epstein (thesis) Alex Fax (thesis) Sawyer Fuller (thesis)

Melvin Flores (thesis) Jimmy Fung (thesis) Martha Grover (Gallivan) (thesis) Vijay Gupta (thesis) Sonja Glavaski* Adam Hayes* Sean Humbert (thesis) Zhipu Jin (thesis) Scott Kelly (thesis) Dmitriy Kogan# Javad Lavaei* (thesis) Andrew Lewis (thesis) Robert M'Closkey (thesis) Mark Milam (thesis) Michiel van Nieuwstadt (thesis)

Muruhan Rathinam (thesis) Clancy Rowley* Ben Shapiro (thesis) Ling Shi (thesis) Demetri Spanos (thesis) Sudipto Sur (thesis) Amber Thweatt# Jorge Tierno* Abhishek Tiwari (thesis) David van Gogh# Tony Vanelli# (thesis) Yong Wang (thesis) Steve Waydo* (thesis) Nok Wongpiromsarn (thesis) Simon Yeung (thesis)

# Masters or Engineers degree    * Co-advised student

Former postdocs:

• Shaunak Sen (2011-2012) - CDS Postdoctoral Fellow
• Jun Liu (2011-2012) - CDS Postdoctoral Fellow
• Noel du Toit (2011) - CDS Postdoctoral Fellow
• Andrew Straw* (2010) - Senior Research Fellow in CNS

Raktim Bhattacharya (2002-04) Brianno Coller (1995-97) Tamer Inanc (2002-04) Eric Klavins* (2001-03) Feng-Li Lian (2001-02)

Kristi Morgansen (1999-2001) Pascal Morin (1996-97) Yasamin Mostofi (2004-06) Reza Olfati-Saber (2001-04) Yizhar Or (2007-09)

Nicolas Petit (2001-02) Henrik Sandberg (2005-07) B. N. Shashikanth* (1998-2000) Willem Sluis (1994-96) Herbert Streumper (1997-99)

Additional group alumni:   SURF    Senior thesis    Visitors

Teaching

The list below is the courses that I have taught at Caltech (or at least most of them). The course links will take you to the (current) course homepage, where you can find the syllabus, handouts, and homework sets. The links for specific terms take you to the course homepage for that term. Links to older courses are available on a separate page.

• ACM/EE_116 - Probability and Random Processes (Fa11)
• BE 150/Bi 250b - Systems Biology (Wi11, Wi12)
• CS/EE/ME 75 - Introduction to Multi-Disciplinary Systems Engineering (04-05, 06-07, 10-11)
• CDS 90 - Senior Thesis in Control and Dynamical Systems (2004-present)
• CDS 101/110a - Analysis and Design of Feedback Systems (Fa97, Fa01, Fa02, Fa03, Fa04, Fa06, Fa07, Fa08, Fa12)
• CDS 110b - Optimization-Based Control (Wi98, Wi02, Wi03, Wi04, Wi06, Wi07, Wi08)
• CDS 140a - Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems (Wi11, Wi13)
• CDS 202 - Geometry of Nonlinear Systems (Wi93, Wi94, Wi04, Wi09)
• CDS 270 - Networked Control Systems (Sp06)
• CDS 273 - Frontiers in Control and Dynamical Systems (Sp01, Sp02, Sp03, Sp04, Sp05, Sp06)
• Older courses (not taught in the last 5 years)
• Guest lectures - individual lectures I have given in various courses

Contact

Mailing Address Richard M. Murray Control and Dynamical Systems 107-81 California Institute of Technology 1200 E. California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125 USA	Contact information E-mail: murray@cds.caltech.edu Office: 109 Steele, (626) 395-6460 Asst: Anissa Scott, x4140 Labs: 12 Steele, 136 Keck
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